Theories of Learning and Studies of Instructional Practice / edited by Timothy Koschmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koschmann, Timothy D.

Series:

Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies, 2512-1723 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Instructional Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Instructional Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theories of Learning and Studies of Instructional Practice Timothy Koschmann, editor Though there have been numerous calls for educational researchers to attend more closely to the details of how teaching is actually done, instructional practice remains an inadequately studied topic. Theories of Learning and Studies of Instructional Practice seeks to remedy this by helping construct a foundation for a practice-based science of instruction. It focuses on the fundamental question, what roles should theories of learning play in the study of instructional practice? In educational research, learning theories represent alternative conceptualizations of what we take learning to be. This volume examines three contemporary theories of learning with particular relevance to the study of practice, namely, situated learning, dialogic theory(or dialogism), and Deweyan transactionalism. Drawing upon a panel of internationally-prominent social scientists, psychologists, philosophers of education and teacher educators, the book critically evaluates the potential contributions of each to a science of instructional practice. Rather than considering these matters in the abstract, chapter authors illustrate their positions by applying the different treatments of learning to selected samples of instructional practice. The data analyzed come from a particular fifth-grade classroom in which an innovative way of teaching math was being tested. Extensive transcripts, images and exhibits are provided, enabling the reader to follow and evaluate the analytic arguments being presented. The volume, therefore, delivers precisely on its title—it provides both an articulation of current theories of learning and a series of carefully constructed studies of instructional practice, seeking to explore the relationship between them. In so doing the book offers no easy answers. Its purpose instead is to bring areas of controversy and confusion to the surface. For researchers and graduatestudents in the learning sciences, this provocative volume opens the door to the next crucial round of dialogue and debate.

Contents:

Section I: Introductions

Ch 1: Theorizing Instructional Practice

Ch 2: Invention in the Classroom: Structuring Natural Variability as Distribution

Appendix A: Transcription conventions

Appendix B: Classroom excerpts

Section II: The Situated Action Perspective

Ch 3: A Situative Perspective on Cognition and Learning in Interaction

Ch 4: A Commentary on Incommensurate Programs

Ch 5: Representational Competence: A Commentary

Ch 6: The Interaction of Content and Control in Group Problem Solving and Learning

Ch 7: Working Both Sides

Responses to the Commentaries by Jim Greeno

Section III: A Dialogic Theory of Learning

Ch 8: Saying More Than You Know in Instructional Settings

Ch 9: Schooling: Domestication or Ontological Construction?- Ch 10: Developing Fluency versus Conceptual Change

Ch 11: From Dialectic to Dialogic

Ch 12: Vygotsky and Teacher Education in the Knowledge Age

Responses to the Commentaries by Jim Wertsch and Sibel Kazak

Section IV: Transactional Inquiry

Ch 13: A Transactional Perspective on the Practice-Based Science of Teaching and Learning

Ch 14: On Plants and Textual Representations of Plants: Learning to Reason in Institutional Categories

Ch 15: Contributions of the Transactional Perspective to Instructional Design and the Analysis of Learning in Social Context

Ch 16: Transacting with Clancey’s “Transactional Perspective on the Practice-Based Science of Teaching and Learning.”- Ch 17: Making Sense of Practice in Mathematics: Models, Theories and Disciplines

Responses to the Commentaries by Bill Clancey

Section V: Synthesis

Ch 18: Observations on the Observations

Ch 19: Cultural Forms, Agency, and the Discovery of Invention in Classroom Research on Learning and Teaching

Ch 20: Reflections on Practice, Teaching/Learning, Video, and Theorizing

Ch 21: Does “Learning” Exist?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781441975829

1441975829

OCLC:

902402927